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PROSPECTUS OF 



THE OHIO VALLEY 
INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION 



TO BE HELD IN THE 



CITY OF CINCINNATI 

AUGUST 29 TO SEPTEMBER 24, INCLUSIVE 

1910 

REPRESENTATIVE OF THE RESOURCES AND INDUSTRIES 
OF THE OHIO VALLEY AND THE SOUTHLAND 

Comprising nineteen States, having a population of 41 ,067,455, ^ ' 

more than one-half of the people in the United States. '•'' 




THE VALLEY CHARM OF THE OHIO 



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OFFICERS. 

ROBERT R. REYNOLDS, 

PRESIDENT. 

SI. P. EGAN, J. H. VARNER, 

FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT. SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT. 



P. LINCOLN MITCHELL, 

SECRETARY. 



EDWARD A. SEITER, 

TREASURER. 



DIRECTORS. 



C. H. M. ATKINS 
JOEL C. CLORE 
J. F. ELLISON 
PHILIP FOSDICK 
GEORGE W. GRIFFITHS 
FRANK HERSCHEDE 
JAMES P. ORR 
JOHN A. RINGOLD 
J. C. SCHAEFER 
WM. H. STEWART 
GEORGE W. WEEDON 

WALTER J. 



GEORGE BOISSARD 
ALFRED M. COHEN 
JULIUS FLEISCHMANN 
P. O. GEIER 
AUGUST HERRMANN 
IRWIN M. KROHN 
THOS. C. POWELL 
CHAS. E. ROTH 
S. B. STANBERY 
A. L. STIX 
R. W. WHITE 
WICHGAR 



COMMITTEES. 
Executive. 

J. H. VARNER WM. H. STEWART GEORGE BOISSARD 

Finance. 

EDWARD A. SEITER R. W. WHITE PHILIP FOSDICK 

Advertising. 

J. C. SCHAEFER JOHN W. IRVINE LOUIS WIRTH 

Halls and Grounds. 

F. O. GEIER GEO. W. CLEVELAND GUSTAVE DRACH 

K D LAWRENCE W. T. HUNTER 

Press. 

S. B. STANBERY GEO. RANDOLPH CHESTER W. C. CULKINS 

Amusement. 

J. H. VARNER JOHN A. RINGOLD PHILIP FOSDICK 



Contracts and Legislation. 

ALFRED M. COHEN JOEL C. CLORE 

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COMMITTEES— Concluded. 



Children's Department. 

WALTER J. WICHGAR EDWARD N. CLOPPER C. F. COLLINS 

Transportation and Excursions. 



o. p. Mccarty 

CLAY ROCKWELL 
W. B. BEVILL 
W. E. QUIGGEN 



J. D. POTTS 
W. C. RINEARSON 
SAMUEL MOODY 
J. F. ELLISON 



W. B. CALLOWAY 
W. A. RUSSELL 
J. A. WIRTHLIN 
H. J. RHEIN 



A. L. STIX 



Admissions. 

JOEL C. CLORE. 

Decorations. 

ANDREAS E. BURKHART SAMUEL W. TROST 



Concessions. 

JAvS. P. ORR 

Information. 

S. B. STANBERY 



EXHIBITS. 

F. B. DAVISON, Director-in-Chief 
• FRANK HERSCHEDE, Chairman 
Agriculture AND Agricultural Implements . . .JOHN A. RINGOLD 

Architecture and Building .SI. P. EGAN 

Chemical and Pharmaceutical Arts GEORGE W. WEEDON 

Children's Department WALTER J. WICHGAR 

Electricity and Electrical Appliances R. W. WHITE 

Fine Arts, Ceramics and Musical Instruments . WM. H. STEWART 
Furniture and Household Appliances . . . GEORGE W. BOISSARD 

Government Exhibit FRANK HERSCHEDE 

Inland Waterways J. F. ELLISON 

Leather and Rubber . IRWIN M. KROHN 

Machinery and Mechanical Appliances P. O. GEIER 

Mines and Metalurgy THOS. C. POWELL 

Paints, Oils and Varnishes SI. P. EGAN 

Products of the Forest S. B. STANBERY 

Pure Foods GEORGE W. GRIFFITHS 

Science, Education and Historical Relics .AUGUST HERRMANN 

Southern Natural Resources THOS. C. POWELL 

Textile Fabrics PHIL. FOSDICK 

Tobacco, Liquors and Provisions CHAS. E. ROTH 

Vehicles A. L. STlX 

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COMMISSIONERS. 

F. B. DAVISON, Commissioner General 

HONORARY. 

Hon. Judson Harmon, Hon. Thos. R. Marshall, 

Governor of Ohio _^ Governor of Indiana 

Hon. Charles S. Deneen, Hon. Augustus E. Willson, 

Governor of Illinois Governor of Kentucky 

Hon. Wm. E. Glasscock, Hon. Malcom R. Patterson, 

Governor of West Virginia Governor of Tennessee 

Hon. Louis Schwab, Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio . . . Cincinnati, Ohio 
Hon. John Galvin, Vice-Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio . Cincinnati, Ohio 
Hon. O. J. Renner, President Council, Cincinnati, . . Cincinnati, Ohio 

Hon. E. M. Ballard, City Solicitor Cincinnati. Ohio 

Hon. J. H. Sundmaker, Director Public Service . . . Cincinnati, Ohio 

Hon. Scott Small, Director Public Safety Cincinnati, -Ohio 

Hon. L. a. Ault, President Board Park Com Cincinnati, Ohio 

Hon. Wm. Gilbert, Vice-President Board Park Com. . Cincinnati, Ohio 
Mr. James Heekin, President Chamber of Commerce. Cincinnati, Ohio 
Mr. a. J. CoNROY, President Business Men's Club . . Cincinnati, Ohio 



GENERAL. 



Representative of Fine Arts. 

JOHN RETTIG H. F. FARNY FRANK DUVENECK 
FRANK B. WIBORG CHAS. P. TAFT 



Representative of Science, Education and 
Historical Relics. 

PROF. JOHN L SHEARER WALTER J. WICHGAR 

HARRY ELLARD 

Representative of Chemical & Pharmaceutical Arts. 

H. W. BROWN W. F. FOY R. W. HOCHSTETTER 
R. W. NEFF W. H. OGBORN R. W. PROCTER 
IRA D. WASHBURN 

Representative of Pure Foods. 

D. E. MILLER H. J. ESTERMAN 

Representative of Architecture & Building Material. 

ALLEN ROSS RAFF WM. CONEY WM. GRIFFITH 

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Representative of Machinery & Mechanical Appliances. 

B. B. QUILLAN DAVID C. JONES ROBT. B. McGOWAN 

Representative of Agriculture and Agricultural Implements. 

JULIUS FRIEDEBOM O. L. BURGER 

Representative of Paints, Oils & Varnishes. 

ALLEN ROSS RAFF WM. CONEY WM. GRIFFITH 

Representative of Vehicles. 

DR. CHAS. L. BONIFIELD J. V. LIPPINCOTT 

Representative of Shoe, Leather and Rubber Industries. 

FRANK HELMERS SAMUEL ROSS, Jr. 

WM. S. McKENZIE EDWARD PFLEGER 

ALBERT KRIPPENDORF ADOLPH BERING 

ALBERT MANSS JAMES P. ORR 

EDWARD ERLICH WALTER J. WICHGAR 

Representative of The South and Its Resources. 



Brent Arnold, G. F. A., L. & N.'R. R.. 



Cincinnati, Ohio 



. . Buffalo, N. Y. 
. New Orleans, La. 
Wilmington, N. C. 
Wilmington, N. C. 
St. Augustine, Fla. 
St. Augustine, Fla. 



E. A. Neil, Traffic Manager, N. O. G. N. Ry . 

F. L. Merritt, General Agt., N. O. G. N. Ry . 
T. M. Emerson, President, Atlantic Coast Line 
W, J. Craig, P. T. M., Atlantic Coast Line . . 
J. P, Beckwith, V. P., Florida East Coast Ry. . 
J. E. Ingraham, V. P., Florida East Coast Ry. 
J. T. Wright, V. P., Macon, Dublin & Savannah Ry. . . Macon, Ga. 
J. A. Streyer, G. F. a., Macon, Dublin & Savannah Ry. . Macon, Ga. 

H. M. Atkinson, Receiver, A. B. & A. Ry. Co Atlanta, Ga. 

W. H. Leahy, G. P. A., A. B. & A. Ry. Co Atlanta, Ga. 

E. T. Lamb, Gen. Manager, Norfolk & Southern Ry. . . Norfolk, Va. 
W. W. Croxton, a. G. p. a., Norfolk & Southern Ry. . . Norfolk, Va. 

J. T. Harahan, President, Illinois Central R. R Chicago, III. 

J. C. Clair, Industrial Commissioner, I. C. R. R . ... Chicago, III. 
W. L. Mapother, First Vice-President., L. & N. Rd. Co. Louisville, Ky. 

G. A. Park, Gen. Industrial & Immigration Agt., L. & N., Louisville, Ky. 

J. H. McCuE, Manager, V. & S. W. R. R Bristol, Tenn. 

T. B. Thackston, Agent Land & Industrial Dept . . . Bristol, Tenn. 

A. B. Massey, President, B. & B. Trans. Co Burnside, Ky. 

Dr. N. D. Stigall Burnside, Ky. 

J. W. Thomas, Pres. and Gen. Mngr., N. C. & St. L. Ry.. Nashville, Tenn. 
L. P. Bellah, Traffic Dept., N. C. & St. L. Ry. . . . Nashville, Tenn. 

W. B. BiDDLE, V. P., St. L. & S. F. Rd. Co St. Louis, Mo. 

M. Schulter, Industrial Commissioner, Frisco System. . St. Louis, Mo. 

Chas. R. Capps, V. P., Seaboard Air Line Norfolk, Va. 

J. W. White, Gen. Industrial Agt., Seaboard Air Line . .Norfolk, Va. 
D. D. Curran, Pres. & Gen. Mngr., N. O. & N. E. New Orleans, La 



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F. Y. Anderson, Land Commissioner, N. O. & N. E. New Orleans, La. 

George W. Stevens, President, C. & O. Ry Richmond, Va. 

C. B. Wall, Real Estate & Industrial Agt., C. & O. . Richmond, Va. 

W. P. Taylor, Traffic Manager, R. F. & P. R. R Richmond, Va. 

Frank H. Cox, Industrial Agent, R. F. & P. R. R. . . Richmond, Va. 
A. B. Newell, President, Tennessee Central R. R. . . Nashville, Tenn. 

W. L. Wene, Care of Tennessee Central R. R Nashville. Tenn. 

J. M, CuLP V. P., Southern Railway Washington, D.C. 

M. V. Richards, Land & Industrial Agent, Sou. Ry. Washington, D. C. 
L. E. Johnson, President Norfolk & Western R. R . . . Roanoke, Va. 
F. H. LaBaume, Agriculture & Industrial Agt., N. & W. Ry., . Roanoke, Va. 

Thos. K. Scott, Gen. Mngr., Georgia Railroad Augusta, Ga. 

Col. S. C. Dunlap, Com., Georgia Bureau or Industries and Immigration, 

Atlanta, Ga. 
J. B. MuNSON, V. P., Georgia Southern & Florida R. R., . . Macon, Ga 
O. J. Stephens, Land & Industrial Agt., G. S. & F. R. R. . Macon, Ga. 
John Skelton Williams, President, Georgia & FloridaRy,. Richmond, Va. 
W. L. Glessner, Land & Immigration Agt., G. S. F. Ry.. Augusta, Ga. 
C. C. F. Bent, Gen. Mangr., B. & O. S-W. R. R. . . . Cincinnati. Ohio 
H. A. Treudley, Industrial Agt., B. & O. S-W. R. R. . Cincinnati, Ohio 
R. K. Smith, President Mississippi Central Rd. Co. . Hattiesburg, Miss. 
L. J. Irwin, Pres., Louisville, Henderson & St. Louis Ry.. Louisville, Ky. 

J. P. Gardner, G. F. A., L. H. & St. L. Ry Louisville, Ky. 

H. F. Smith, V. P., Nashville, Chattanooga & St. L. Ry., Nashville, Tenn. 

A. R. Smith, Third V. P., L. & N. Rd. Co Louisville, Ky, 

T. S. Davant, V. P., Norfolk & Western R. R Roanoke, Va, 

Thos. P. Hale, Second V. P., Gulf & Ship Island Rd. Co., Gulfport, Miss. 
J. L. Hawley, G. F. a.. Gulf & Ship Island Rd. Co., .Gulfport, Miss. 
F. B. Bowes, Gen. Traffic Mngr., Illinois Central R. R. . Chicago, III. 
J. J. Campion, V. P., Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Ry., Johnson City, Tenn. 
R. F. Brewer, Industrial Agt.. Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Ry., 

Johnson City, Tenn. 
W. F. Owen, V. P., New Orleans, Mobile & Chicago Rd. Co., Mobile, Ala. 
L. L. Lawrence, Mngr., Industrial & Immigration Dept., Mobile, Ala. 

W. A. Winburn, V. P., Central of Georgia Rd Savannah, Ga, 

J. M. Mallory, Industrial Agt., Central of Ga. Ry., . , Savannah, Ga. 
C. A. Wickersham, Pres., Atlanta & West Point Rd. Co., Atlanta, Ga. 

W. T. Culver, V, P., Kentucky & Tennessee Ry Stearns, Ky. 

R, L. Stearns, Treasurer, Kentucky & Tennessee Ry. Co., Stearns, Ky. 

Col. E. L. Russell, V. P., Mobile & Ohio R. R. Co Mobile, Ala. 

W. L. Henderson, Act., Land & Industrial Dept., M. & O., Mobile, Ala, 



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EXPOSITIONS 

The United States of America, followed by many foreign 
countries, has, through congressional, legislative, corporate 
and individual endorsement and co-operation, placed at the 
head of industrial and commercial exploitation the exposition, 
thereby affixing the seal of approval to those v^ords of our 
late President McKinley which have given expositions much 
of the institutional rank and dignity to which they have 
attained. 

The exposition of today is the Twentieth Century county, 
tri-county and state fair grown to the fulness of greatest 
accomplishment in the greatest age. 

It is the only institution which brings the forests and 
fish of Maine and Washington, and the fruits and flowers 
of California and Florida together, which, with all that lies 
between, constitutes the greatest school of resource and 
research the world has yet founded. 

In recognition of these facts, many parts of this country 
have honored the institution and thereby given impetus to 
the onward and upward march of industrial and commercial 
progress. 



Governor Harmon, of Ohio, says: 

"Cincinnati has such a high reputation for 
Expositions that everybody knows in advance 
that the present one will be up to or above 
standard. You may count on me to help in the 
enterprise all I can." 

JUDSON HARMON. 



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DOWN ON THE OHIO* 



THE OHIO VALLEY EXPOSITION 

The Ohio Valley Exposition, representative of the re- 
sources and industries of the Ohio Valley and the South, 
will be an Industrial Exposition in the fullest sense. It 
will be both retrospective and prospective. It will com- 
memorate and contemplate. Its limited area, both building 
and ground, insures selective exhibits and amusements. 
It will have none of those cheap, ribald, offensive shows 
which have characterized some expositions. Its commemo- 
rative features comprise the One Hundredth Anniversary of 
Steamboat Navigation on the Ohio River; the Completion 
of Government Dam No. 37, known as the 'Ternbank 
Dam," located just below Cincinnati, and the Completion 
of the Ohio Mechanics Institute's new home (this institute 
having created the first Exposition given in the United States). 
Its contemplative features will be reflected throughout this 
prospectus. 



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NEW HOME OF THE OHIO MECHANICS INSTITUTE 



PRESIDENT TAFT 

The President will confer a greater distinction upon 
the Ohio Valley Exposition than has been enjoyed by any 
other exposition. 

He has consented to be the guest of the Ohio Valley 
Exposition for one entire week at the least, and will, if he 
can so arrange his affairs of state as to make it practical, 
be present and officiate at the opening, August 29th. 



The President says: 

"I expect to be present at some time during 
the Ohio Valley Exposition which you are to hold, 
and to testify my interest in all the events of 
which it is a memorial." 

W. H. TAFT. 



GOVERNMENT EXHIBITS 

Government participation, from the exhibit point of view, 
will be enjoyed by the Ohio Valley Exposition through the 
special courtesies of the President, the various Cabinet 
Officers, as heads of departments, and their efficient Corps 
of Assistants, who have pledged personal interest and effort 
in the matter of making an intensified, comprehensive exhibit 
of the Government's Resources and Work. 

These exhibits will comprise displays from the following 
departments and bureaus, viz.: Treasury, War, Navy, 
Agriculture, Interior, Commerce and Labor, Postoffice, 
Geological Survey, Navigation, Statistics, Marine Signal 
Corps, Fisheries and Engraving. 

The Committee on Government Exhibits of the Ohio 
Valley Exposition visited Washington recently and was 
there shown important new Government Exhibits which 
have never been shown at any exposition. These are of 
intense interest to the Ohio Valley and the South, and will 
be on exhibit at the Ohio Valley Exposition. 

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THE ROOSEVELT TROPHIES 

Congress will be asked to adopt a joint resolution author- 
izing the Board of Regents of The Smithsonian Institution 
to exhibit the Roosevelt Trophies at the Ohio Valley Exposi- 
tion for the first time. 

These Trophies consist of skeletons and mounted animals 
shot by Mr. Roosevelt while in Africa, in the interest of 
science, and presented to the Smithsonian Institution in 
Washington, which has for its mission "The Increase and 
Diffusion of Knowledge Among Alen." 

PANAMA CANAL 

The Isthmian Canal Commission will make the most 
comprehensive Panama Canal Exhibit ever made. It will 
consist of the newest relief map of the Canal zone, which 
zone is ten miles wide and extends across Central America 
from ocean to ocean. This map, 5 x 13 feet in size, will 
show the Canal as completed; the location of all locks and 
dams, the breakwaters and fortification sites at either ter- 
minus, the celebrated Culebra Cut, the Gatun Dam and 
all other specific features of this great project w^hich three 
foreign nations have endeavored to construct and failed. 

A lecturer will accompany this exhibit, who will describe 
the building of the Canal in detail and tell the visitor why 
Uncle Sam is succeeding where others failed. This lecture 
will be illustrated with views showing progress in the Canal 
work. 

THE OHIO VALLEY 

The Ohio Valley is the Gateway to internal American 
commerce. Though it passed Daniel Boone, Lewis and 
Clark and many other pioneers of civilization who gave us 
much of the South, the Louisiana Purchase and the Oregon 
Country. 

That was yesterday; today, those numberless bands of 
steel which bind the commercial South, East, North and West 

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A COMMERCIAL LINK 



into the one commercial nation without a peer, have their 
crossings in the Ohio Valley. From Pittsburg to Cairo the 
ring of steel, the clatter of coal and the hum of machinery 
in field and factory have long been heard throughout the 
world. 

INLAND WATERWAYS 

One hundred years ago a granduncle of Ex-President 
Roosevelt built the first boat intended for inland waterways 
carrying trade west of the Allegheny Mountains. This 
boat was launched at Pittsburg and headed for Cincinnati, 
w^here, upon her arrival, she received a great ovation. 

That event, which the Ohio Valley Exposition will, in 
part, commemorate, marked the beginning of an era of 
river navigation which has been fruitful in proportion to its 
development; an era whose trial balance has recently awaken- 
ed an interest throughout every state and territory in the 
Union, such as the history of our country seldom records; 
an era whose latest achievement is 



THE FERNBANK DAM 

The Fernbank Dam is the latest step taken by the United 
States Government Engineering Department in the improve- 

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ment of river naviga- 
tion. It is known as 
No. 37 in that series 
of dams along the 
Ohio River which, 
when completed, will 
assure the navigabili- 
ty of that river from 
source to mouth 
throughout every day in the year 




Its site is Cincinnati; hence the selection of that city as 
the fittest place to celebrate the dawning of a new and larger 
era of inland waterway navigation, freighted with so much 
of commercial and industrial interest to the nation, generally; 
stretching from Pittsburg to Cairo, from Minneapolis to 
New Orleans, from Sioux City to St. Louis, and from rivulets 
north and south, east and west, whence cometh the Ohio, 
the Mississippi, and the Missouri. The Ohio Valley Ex- 
position will celebrate the completion of this event with 
gorgeous river pageants and exhibits typifying river naviga- 
tion progress. 

A NEW ERA 

That new and larger era ushered in by marked progress 
toward river navigation and by a newly awakened business 
sense to the greatest commercial and industrial certainties 
of the new century: certainties surer and greater than 
Alaska's buried wealth and infinitely more accessible; cer- 
tainties tempered by the charm of people, of pioneering in 
pleasant places; certainties guaranteed by the history of 
development of the West as it will be repeated in 

THE SOUTH 

The South comprises fifteen states and about one-third 
of the territory of the United States. It is greater and richer 
than we know. Its cotton, coal, iron, oils and lumber are 



RIVER-FRONT 

ACTIVITY 

ON THE OHIO 



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the compelling forces which have allured 
millions of home and foreign dollars 
from less productive fields. Its fruits 
and flowers surcharged with rich flavor 
and pleasant odors, through the influence 
of copious sunshine and mellow nights, 
are fast drawing homebuilders who de- 
light to follow capital into such a land. 

EXPOSITION SITE 

The Ohio Valley Exposition will oc- 
cupy a site in the business center of 
the city of Cincinnati, covering fifteen 
acres now devoted to parks, music halls, 
canal, streets, etc. 

In addition to Music Hall, a perma- 
nent structure, temporary exhibition 
buildings will be erected and the entire 
OF THE SOUTH p^j.j^ ^^^ watcr area beautified and embellished in keeping 
with the dignity and purposes of the Exposition. 



THE LURE 



From Collier's, January 22d, 1910. 

The South is, in all respects, the fastest-grow- 
ing section of the United States. In the popula- 
tion of its cities, in the number of factories, the 
product of farms, the mining of coal, the increase 
in bank deposits, the extension of telephone lines, 
the number and quality of schools, in railroad 
building, development of waterpower, the making 
of good roads, the production of lumber — in these 
and every other material aspect, the South is 
going ahead today faster than any other section 
of the United States. 



AIM AND OBJECT 

The aim and object of the Ohio Valley Exposition 
will be to bring together an exhibit of the resources and 
industries of the Ohio Valley and the South for the common 

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good; to bring into closer and better relations those progres- 
sive men and women from both sections upon whom present 
and future generations depend for the development of those 
Resources and Industries. 



Governor Deneen, of Illinois, says: 

"The matters to be commemorated by the 
Ohio Valley Exposition are of great importance, 
both to the State of Ohio and to the country 
generally, because of their relation to the con- 
servation movement in which the people of the 
United States are now showing deep and active 
interest. I believe the Exposition will do much 
to further stimulate that interest." 

CHAS. S. DENEEN. 
March 23, 1910. 



KEYNOTE 

Reciprocal trade relations between the varied interests 
of the Ohio Valley and the South will be the dominating 
spirit of the Ohio Valley Exposition in order that the greatest 
good to the greatest number may result and endure. 

CLASSIFICATION 

Exhibits will be so classified as to present a harmonious 
and dignified display of those resources and industries which 
will be most helpful to the sections interested, and most 
available to those who seek that technical information which 
uplifts a people and its country. 

SCOPE 

The Ohio Valley and the South have been strengthening 
their business ties for many years. Today much of the 
prosperity or depression of one section is felt in the other, 
therefore the bond of commercial advantage is rapidly linking 
these sections together in an indissoluble union. 

The scope of exhibits will not bar any product, industry 

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LOADING COTTON 
FOR THE ORIENT 
AND THE 
OCCIDENT 



or commercial feature, from 
any part of the world, which 
will make for a greater nation, 
provided always that it be 
consistent with the aims and 
purposes for which the Ohio 
Valley Exposition is to be 
given. 



COTTON 

The 1909 billion-dollar cotton crop of the South has been 
an inspiration to the commerce of our entire country. 

Cotton manufacturers are headed South; the whir of 
spindles, the crushing and pressing of the cottonseed and 
the flow of cottonseed oil are sights and sounds which ap- 
peal to capital and labor alike. 

Cotton will command its due consideration from the 
management of the Ohio Valley Exposition, and its exhibits 
will serve to advance the cause of both the producer and 
consumer. 

This cotton exhibit will be supplemented by illustrated 
lectures, in one of the biograph rooms, which will be both 
instructive and entertaining. 



By F. L. Seely, Editor Atlanta Georgian. 

The feature of the South's progress that has 
always appealed to me has been the perpetual 
quality of our greatest resource. Cotton can not 
be grown anywhere in the world, except in the 
Southern United States, Egypt and India, and 
Egypt and India can only furnish fifteen percent 
of the world's present supply — a proportion that 
grows smaller as the world grows larger, while 
the South knows no limit to her ability to pro- 
duce this commodity. 



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COAL, IRON AND 
OIL 

The coal, iron and oil 
deposits of the Ohio Val- 
ley and the South are sure 
to play a more important 
part in future national and 
international commerce. 

The development of these fields, which the Ohio Valley 
Exposition, among its various functions, aims to exploit, 
will require an immense amount of capital and labor which 
will result in enriching both. 



IRON MILLS 



F. M. Runnels, Secy., Business Men's League of 
Greenville, Miss. 
When the hard-reasoning, driving manufacturer 
of the North learns that tributary to Greenville, 
Mississippi, there are more than 13,000,000 people 
who must have beds to sleep in, chairs to sit on, 
and tables to eat from, they will begin to realize 
that Greenville, with her hardwoods for cabinet 
work, is a place for manufacture of furniture and 
household utilities. 



LUMBER 

The Forests south of the Ohio River are virgin fields 
in comparison with other sections of this country. Exhibits 
at the Ohio Valley Exposition will convince the w^orld 
that the woods of the South are unexcelled, in quality and 
quantity, for homebuilding and homefurnishing. 

The coal, iron and forestry exhibits will be 
plemented by United States Government exhibits 
sisting of relief maps, wall 
maps, models, etc., and a 
series of illustrated lectures, 
by eminent specialists, cover- 
ing these resources and in- 

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sup- 
con- 




LUMBER MILLS 



dustries will be conducted in one of the biograph rooms 
during the term of the Exposition. 



From Collier's, January 22d, 1910. 

All of the picturesque incidents of the rapid 
growth which are suggested by the word "boom" 
have been for thirty years associated with the 
West. For the next twenty years the South is to 
be the country of quickly doubling population and 
all of the other phenomena of expansion. And, 
once started, the South may easily go farther than 
the West. It has much that the West never had. 
For example, coal and iron in abundance and 
within a stone's throw of one another; plenty of 
lumber — one half the country's remaining timber 
is in the Southern States — and navigable streams 
to take advantage of the new era of water trans- 
portation. 



AGRICULTURE 

The Ohio Valley, rich and abundant in its products, 
will soon be called upon to feed and clothe millions of people 
that it knows not of today. 

In 1880 the South had sixteen million souls; today twenty- 
seven million is the approximate number, and the immediate 
future promises a much greater rate of increase. 

The South is making giant strides toward agricultural 
achievement. Cotton growing has received new impetus 
as a result of the recent billion-dollar harvest. The South 
holds the world's record for corn production per acre; two 



The Secretary of Agriculture says: 

"With proper attention to stock raising and 
legume growing you can in six or seven years 
make your Southern lands worth $100 per acre, 
and there is no more alluring agricultural op- 
portunity in America than that of taking $10 
or $20 Southern land and increasing its value 
five or tenfold in a decade, besides making good 
profits while doing it." 

JAMES WILSON. 



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of its states claim preemi- 
nence in fig culture, over any 
other section in the world, 
while rice and sugarcane in 

its vast seacoast country are — - 

grown extensively. Its vol- 
ume of agriculture and agri- 
cultural appliances will hard- 
ly grow apace with immigration; hence the opportunity to be 
afforded by the Ohio Valley Exposition to study reciprocal 
needs along agricultural lines. 



A SKY-SCRAPING 
INDUSTRIAL PLANT 



MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES 

What is true regarding agriculture in the South, is true 
with relation to machinery and mechanical appliances. 
Manufactories follow people and power, which justify in- 
vestment. The Ohio Valle}' has manufacturing industries 



By F. M. Runnels, Secy., Business Men's League 
of Greenville, Miss. 

When your capitalist, who today seeks new 
avenues of interurban investment in the trolleyed 
North, finds that this Mississippi Delta country 
is crying for the handy means of communication 
furnished by the electric car, he will begin to 
take notice of the valuable time and opportunities 
lost. 



unexcelled which will contribute much to the development of 
the South. A comprehensive exhibit of these industries at 
the Ohio Valley Exposi- 
tion will do much toward 
strengthening present 
and establishing new 
trade relations with a 
people whose section is 
richer in undeveloped re- 
sources than we know. 

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AWAITING THE ELECTRICAL HARNESS 



ELECTRICITY 

Electrical Transportation, Light and Power are com- 
mercial agencies which need no eulogy. The South offers 
greater inducement for this field of enterprise than can be 
found elsewhere in the country. 

The Ohio Valley Exposition will, therefore, make special 
displays of Electricity, Electrical Machinery and Appliances, 
more particularly along commercial lines. 

MARINE EXHIBITS 

Of the twenty-six thousand miles of inland waterways 
in the United States, the Ohio Valley and the South have 
over nineteen thousand miles. Boats of nearly all descrip- 
tions will play an important part in the further commercial 
development of these sections, and the Ohio Valley Exposi- 
tion will give this class of exhibits recognition commensurate 
with its importance. 




WHERE HEALTH AXD PLEASURE .AIELl 

EXHIBITS IN GENERAL 

The Exposition Management wishes to impress the fact 
that this prospectus does not aim to emphasize the foregoing 
subjects to the exclusion of others w^hich may be equally 
important. 

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Departments of Shoes, Leather and Rubber, Automobiles 
and Carriages, Architecture and Building Material, Chemical 
and Pharmaceutical Arts, Children's Work, Furniture and 
Household Appliances, Fine Arts, Ceramics and Musical 
Instruments, Paints, Oils and Varnishes, Pure Foods, Science, 
Education and History, Textile Fabrics, Tobacco, Liquor 
and Provisions, etc., will have their places at the Ohio Valley 
Exposition, and the creation of these exhibits is in the hands 
of specialists who are exercising intense interest in the work. 

ENTERTAINMENT 

A most liberal range of entertainment, including illustrated 
lectures, recitals, concerts, spectacular productions, horse 
shows, pageants, regattas, amusement concessions, etc., 
etc., will be given as a spice to those whose "All work tends 
to make them dull boys." 

Cincinnati is the birthplace of Musical Festivals, Saenger- 
fests. Dramatic Festivals, large outdoor spectacular events, 
and will not fail to do bigger and better things than have 
ever been done. 

RAILROADS, RIVERS AND SEA 

The nineteen States directly interested in the Ohio Valley 
Exposition, with a population of more than 41,000,000, 




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have a degree of transportation facilities not equaled by any 
like territory in the world. 

This territory has a network of railroads which are being 
groomed as never before in the history of the South; naviga- 
ble rivers without equal in this country bisect it and reach 
back from ocean and gulf to inland business centers and 
railroad termini, while its coast line, with its many fine 
harbors, comprises seventy percent of the entire seacoast 
of the United States. 

The Ohio Valley Exposition will show comprehensive 
exhibits covering these indispensable links in the future 
growth of these States. 



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ALL CLEAR 



TRANSPORTATION 

Local electric transportation facilities are sufficient for 
all needs, while the converging steam lines leading into 
Cincinnati from North, East, South and West render a trip 
to the Ohio Valley Exposition both expedient and agree- 
able. 

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Mayor Schwab says: 

"Permit me to say that your project has my 
hearty endorsement, as I thoroughly believe such 
an exposition as is contemplated will result in 
bringing our people into closer touch and ac- 
quaintanceship with their neighbors throughout 
the Ohio Valley, and in the Southland, to the 
mutual benefit of all. 

"The visitors to the Exposition will be re- 
ceived by our citizens with open arms and a most 
cordial welcome extended to them. To that end, 
my services are always at your command." 
LOUIS SCHWAB, 
Mayor of Cincinnati. 




A PARK VISTA, CINCINNATI 

HOSTESS 



Cincinnati will dress and entertain upon this occasion, 
as becomes her happy privilege and civic dignity. 

When the hum of machinery, the glare of electricity or 

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the blare of many brass bands seem to drive you to quieter 
moments, the city will offer you beautiful parks, cafes, an 
art museum, a charming zoological garden, a restful steam- 
boat ride on the dreamy Ohio, a trolley trip across the river 
into the hills of Kentucky to Fort Thomas, an evening at 
one of the many theatres and other similar diversions, w^hich 
add to the total of a life best lived. 

CHURCHES, HOTELS, CLUBS, ETC. 

Cincinnati is a city of Churches, Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., 
W. C. T. U., Women's Clubs, Men's Clubs, and kindred 
other Associations, Hotels, Theatres, and various other 
institutions, all of which entertain and make pleasant and 
profitable the stay of guests. 




TYLER-DAVIDSON FOUNTAIN, CINCINNATI 



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THE FINAL WORD 

The long continued march of commercial and industrial 
progress from East to West has left-flanked. The land 
of the "Ohio" and the South is the new rendezvous 
of the great army of capital and labor. The hopes and 
ambitions, the needs and wishes, the possibilities and cer- 
tainties touching fireside, field and factory must be seen 
and heard and understood if ideals are to be attained. 

History, indorsed by leaders in the realms of the world's 
thought and progress, has given to expositions the highest- 
place among commercial and industrial developing agencies, 
because of their educational force. 

The Ohio Valley Exposition will endeavor to maintain 
the standard. Whether you seek investment, employment, 
education or entertainment let your seeking lead you this 
year into the Southland, through the Ohio Valley to the 
Exposition where opportunities exist which will meet all 
requirements. 

ADDENDA 

TO EXHIBITORS 

Through the courtesy of the railroads all exhibitors will 
be privileged, under the provisions of the Inter-State Com- 
merce Act, to have their exhibits returned to the point of 
initial shipment free from freight charge. 

There will be no charge to exhibitors for floor space occu- 
pied at this Exposition; however, exhibitors will be required 
to pay the rate of $i.oo per square foot of floor space occu- 
pied for the following equipment and installation, and the 
maintenance of same during the period of the Exposition. 
Booth, railing, floor covering, decoration of booth in accord- 
ance with general scheme of decoration, general lighting, 
lighting of booth equivalent to one sixteen (i6) candle-power 
lamp for each twenty-five (25) square feet of floor space 
occupied, police service, signs, janitor service, watchmen, 

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storage room for packing cases and mention in Exposition 
program or catalog; it being expressly understood that all 
of said equipment so furnished shall be and remain the prop- 
erty of the Exposition, and that all exhibitors shall conform 
to the general equipment, installation and maintenance rules 
and regulations of the Exposition. 

Diplomas for Honorable Mention, evidencing participa- 
tion in the Ohio Valley Exposition, will be awarded and 
issued to every exhibit which, in the judgment of the Jury 
of Awards, reaches a standard in its class worthy of such 
recognition. 

NOTE. — The free space privilege ^ free return freight 
privilege, and minimum rate charge to exhibitors for installa- 
tion and maintenance requisites during the term of the Exposi- 
tion, considered, in connection with a selective hut comprehen- 
sive Government exhibit and a general exhibit of all of the 
natural resources of the Ohio Valley and the South, by a concert 
of action on the part of all the railroads in this territory, assures 
early assignment of all available exhibit space. THIS IS A 
WORD TO THE WISE. 

Rules and regulations governing exhibits, ground and 
floor plans, application blanks, etc., may be secured by 
making application for same. 

Address all communications to the Ohio Valley Exposi- 
tion, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



The Krehbiel Press, Cincinnati, O. 

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